{"id":132252,"date":"2021-12-11T21:27:24","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T05:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/electric-jet-engines-could-mean-carbon-neutral-air-travel"},"modified":"2021-12-11T21:27:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T05:27:24","slug":"electric-jet-engines-could-mean-carbon-neutral-air-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/electric-jet-engines-could-mean-carbon-neutral-air-travel","title":{"rendered":"Electric Jet Engines Could Mean Carbon-Neutral Air Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/electric-jet-engines-could-mean-carbon-neutral-air-travel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We talk a lot about electric cars, and it\u2019s evident that engineers are working toward fossil fuel alternatives for our land-based travel. But what about airplanes? In 2019, 18.27 billion gallons of fuel were used by planes. That\u2019s far from carbon-neutral.<\/p>\n<p>Soon though, we could feel less guilty about flying. A team of researchers has created a prototype jet engine that\u2019s able to propel itself forward using only electricity. Their study was published in<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/aip.scitation.org\/doi\/full\/10.1063\/5.0005814\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em> AIP Advances<\/em><\/a> in May 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talk a lot about electric cars, and it\u2019s evident that engineers are working toward fossil fuel alternatives for our land-based travel. But what about airplanes? In 2019, 18.27 billion gallons of fuel were used by planes. That\u2019s far from carbon-neutral. Soon though, we could feel less guilty about flying. A team of researchers has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}